My September Rest and Rejuvenate challenge has been hard but rewarding. It has forced me to think outside of the box and get creative with my writing topics and themes of discussion. Something I have really wanted to sink my teeth into and start dispelling the taboo around is the somewhat-painful subject of money. Personally, [...]
My mom first took me swimming when I was maybe one or two. I had a bright yellow swimming costume with a jelly green star on it, a pair of inflatable red armbands, and not much hair. Since then, I’ve always been obsessed with the water. I completed all of my Kelloggs Rainbow Swimming badges [...]
Summer is almost over. The sun is kissing the earth a little later every morning and disappearing behind the clouds earlier at night. Already, I am munching and washing and wiping my saliva up in artificial morning lamplight. Soon, I will be rising in black and traveling in black. I will be running in black, [...]
I still find it weird to say I am on a ‘fitness journey’. Little miss “I hate PE. I despise cross-country and everything team sport-related!” is now running around town and swimming on a strict, regular basis… and LOVING it? While I am obsessed with this exercise odyssey, I am definitely still the personification of [...]
In late 2018, my to be read list was more like a ‘never-going-to-read’ library. Jane Austen littered my windowsills, Zadie Smith lined by cupboards, Oscar Wilde sprawled over my kitchen and you do not even want to know who was hiding under my bed. I loved nothing more than receiving novels in the post, picking [...]
